Paper-file.



No. 741,422. PATENTED OCT. 13, 1903. F. A. WEEKS.

PAPER FILE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. so, 1903.

NO MODEL.

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WITNESSES: INVENTOR llniTnn STAT-ES Patented October 13, 1903 PATENT@rrrcn.

PAPERMFILE.

:STE'ECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 741,422, datedOctober 13, 1903.

Application filed April 30, 1903. Serial No. 154,973. on model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beitknown thatI, FRANK A. WEEKS, acuiaen of the United States, and aresident of Plainfield, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey,haveinvented certain new and usefullmprovementsin Paper-Files, of whichthe following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in paper-files; and it consists inthe novel features of construction hereinafter described and claimed.

Paper-files of the class to which my invention pertains comprise an ironbase-plate to be hung againsta wall' or other support and j a wire hookpointed at its upper end and at its lower end held within an apertureformed in the said base-plate, the lower end of the wire hook beingpassed into said aperture and upset or headed at its extremity at theback of said base-plate. It has been found in practice very difficult toso secure the wire hook to the base-plate as to prevent said hook underthe somewhat rough usage to which these files are subjected from turningaxially at its lower end within the aperture in said baseplate.Notwithstanding the fact that the wire hook may appear to be verysecurely fastened to the base-plate during the manufacture of the goods,it is found that in service the said hook becomesv sufficiently loose inits connection with the base-plate to turn axially, thereby renderingthe file substantially useless.

It is the purpose of my invention to remedy the above defect in existingpaper-files without materially increasing the cost of manufacturing thefile or necessitating any increase in the selling-price of the same andto produce a file in which the hook will not be capable of turningaxially in its receivingaperture, even though the file be subjected toconstant and careless or rough usage.

My invention therefore pertains to the means for securing the lower endof the wire hook to the iron base-plate, and this invention will befully understood from the detailed description hereinafter presented,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is afront elevation of a paper-file constructed in accordance withandembodyin g the invention. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section of sameon the dotted line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detached horizontalsection, on an enlarged scale, through a portion of same 011 the dottedline 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. t is a front elevation of a portion of thebase-plate and illustrates aslight modification of the in-- vention; andFig. 5 is a detached side elevatian of the lower end of a modified formof the wire hook adapted for connection with either the base-plate shownin Figs. 1 and 2 or the modification thereof shown in Fig. 4:.

In the drawings 10 designates the baseplate, of usual or suitableoutline, and 11 the wire hook pointed at its upper end to receive thepapers and at its lower end having the horizontal arm 12 to be passedthrough an aperture 13 in the base-plate 10, the extremity of said arm12 being upset or headed to prevent its Withdrawal from said aperture.

The base-plate 10 is at its upper end customarily provided with anaperture let for enabling the file to be hung upon a nail or othersupport, and at its lower portion the said baseplate 10 is in thepresent instance provided with an integral hub 15, through which the aperture 13 passes and which in accordance with my invention is formedwith a vertical groove 16, leading from the front end of the aperture 13and adapted to receive an arm 17, formed at the lower end of the hook 11by bending the wire thereof, as shown in Fig. 2. The baseplate 10 hastherefore for its novel features the hub 15, containing the aperture 13and groove 16, and the hook 11 has for its novel feature the angulararms 12 17 at its lower end, the arm 12 being adapted to the saidaperture 13 and the arm 17 to the said groove 16, the opposite walls ofthe latter closely receiving said arm 17 and preventing any axialturning of the hook 11 on the arm 12. The groove 16 will preferably havetapered side walls, as shown in Fig. 3, so that the arm 17 may beclosely pressed in tosaid groove and be rigidly held thereby. Theupsetting of the extremity of the arm 12 will tighten said arm in theaperture 13 and prevent the direct withdrawal of said armtherefrom,while the groove 16 and arm 17 prevent any axial turning of the hook 11and relieve the arm 12 from all of the strains which would otherwisecome upon it by any side thrusts exerted upon the hook 11 during the useof the file.

In the construction shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 the aperture 13 is at thecenter of the hub 15, and the groove 16 extends downwardly from saidaperture along the lower half of said hub, and I consider that this isthe neater and preferable construction; but there may be an advantage inhaving the groove 16 eX- tend both above and below the aperture 13, asshown in Fig. 4, because when the groove 16 is thus extender] entirelyacross the hub 15 the sand in which the base-plate is cast will not beso likely to stick within said groove and also because when the groove16 extends entirely across the hub 15 said groove may be very readilycleaned out. I do not, therefore, desire to limit my invention to theextending of the groove 16 only half-way acrossthe hub 15, since it isobvious that said groove may be extended entirely across said hub, ifdesired.

The arms 12 17 at the lower end of the hook 11 are formed by bendingsaid end of the hook upwardly and outwardly in the outline of a rightangle, and when the hook is given the form shown in Fig. 2 the lower endof the holding portion of the book will extend outwardly from the lowerend of the arm 17; but, if desired, the lower end of the hook 11 may begiven the form illustrated in Fig. 5, so that the lower end of itsholding portion will be in line with the aperture 13 in the base-plate10, this necessitating the giving of the wire of the hook an upwardbend, as at 20, and

then extending it outwardly in the usual Way.

The important part of the hook in respect of the present inventionresides in the arms 12 17, the former to enter the aperture 13 and thelatter to be engaged by the opposite walls of the groove 16. i I

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The paper-file comprising the base-plate and hook 11, said base-platehaving the aperture 13 and in its front face and in line with saidaperture the exposed groove 16, and said hook at its lower end havingthe arm 12 directly fastened within said aperture, and the vertical arm17 closely fitting within said groove; substantially as shown anddescribed.

2. The paper-file comprising the base-plate 10 and hook 11, saidbase-plate having on the lower portionof its front face the protrudinghub 15 containing the aperture 13 and exposed groove 16 in line withsaid aperture,

and the said hook at its lower end having the arm 12 directly fastenedWithin said aperture, and the arm 17 closely fitting within said groove;substantially as shown and described. Signed at New York, in the countyof New York and State of New York, this 28th day of April, A. D. 1903.

FRANK A. WEEKS.

Witnesses:

CHAS. C. GILL, ARTHUR MARION.

